Request for help to make mariadb-10.3 in Debian reproducible

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

ti 21. tammik. 2020 klo 2.06 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> kirjoitti:
> > As a side note, the search engine groonga itself is also currently
> > unreproducible in a similar way (build-id changes, root cause
> > unclear):
>
> Heh, so sometimes I get the impression that some maintainers see the
> build-id differences and try to address this directly. In the land of

Yes, I am aware of this, hence the reference that root cause is unclear.

> > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/diffoscope-results/groonga.html
> > BUT it is reproducible in testing
>
> The main difference between unstable and testing is that we do not
> vary the build path in the latter, so this would be my first avenue
> when trying to fix this.

Do you have any pointers what in the mroonga or tokudb source I should
search for that is related to build paths?
Or some docs on how exactly reprotest changes the build paths?

- Otto